Would the Universe be better off without Earth?

Most of this boils down to the question of whether the inhabitants of Earth can change the fabric of the Ooniverse or not, and the answer to that is we just don't know and it is uncertain that we ever will know. While I doubt that our smartest and brightest will ever be capable of coming anywhere close to understanding what actually makes the Ooniverse tick let alone affecting it, I also doubt that we are the pinnacle of sentient evolution. Mankind (in one form or another) has only been on this planet for 200,000 years of its 4.6 billion year existence, most of our 'accomplishments' have happened in the last 4,500 years and recorded history barely stretches back 2,000 years yet most of us struggle to remember what we had for diner last week and no one can fabricate a cell-phone from the pile of sand and minerals it is composed of. In evolutionary terms we're not that different from our ape ancestors who took great pleasure in flinging poo at each other (in that respect we've hardly evolved at all), so in spite of all we've achieved that we think makes us special we are a primitive lifeform with a lot to learn and a hell of lot more evolving to do. Then there is no reason to expect that the sentient lifeforms that evolves on Earth in the next 4.5 billion years before the lights go out will be descended from man, or even be mammalian, or carbon-based - perhaps one of them will be smart enough to work it all out and then be smart enough to appreciate that just because you can do something doesn't mean that you must. 

"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."

How do you know we are insignificant in universal terms?

How the earth influences the universe?

Edited by Ivan_Melgar_M - October 03 2016 at 12:35

Perhaps the question should be: Is the earth better off without the universe. Makes just as much sense as the OP's question.

EddieRUKiddingVarese wrote: Hrychu wrote: Would Progarchives be better off without pointless threads like this? So I guess there is no good parties happening out your way.............

ahhh... I think you read his meaning wrong man. Pointless threads like this are exactly what us boring old farts who HAVE no real lives full of booze, broads and blow (only the fond memories of our hedonistic youth).

so yeah... I bet he posted that with his nose in a pile of coke, a near empty bottle of Jose Cuervo next to his keyboard and enjoying the company of a blond with a major oral fixation.

Do you think threads like this are interesting to him!

Did you start your party without telling me............ Oh wait that means the world is about to end ..... or your just on a bender 

What an absolutely meaningless question.........and the correct answer is it doesn't matter.

There is one thing that the Earth has contributed to the Ooniverse that as far as we know no other planet has done and that is litter. While through their destruction suns and their planets have spewed elemental particles and electromagnetic radiation into space, we are the only documented planet to have done this deliberately, along with the satellites and associated manmade debris that orbits the Earth, we've littered other nearby planets, moons and the odd comet, and we've also littered the solar neighbourhood with spurious lumps of flying metal. More than this we've been indiscriminately spewing manmade electromagnetic radiation into free space for the past 130 years so we have polluted our neighbourhood to a radius of 130 light years with this noise. If the destruction of the Earth is being schemed by minds immeasurably superior to ours then it will be because we're inconsiderate neighbours.

Would Progarchives be better off without pointless threads like this?